Philosophy Quotes

"The personal is political, and the political is personal."

"Power operates through what we don't see and take for granted."

"We have never been modern because modernity is a collage of incompatible materials."

"Critique is no longer a tool of enlightenment but an obstacle to understanding."

"Mediation is more fundamental than representation."

"To be modern is to be caught between incommensurable worlds."

"Purification is the hallmark of modern thought, yet it always fails."

"The global is not a scale but a specific type of local connection."

"We live in networks of translation, not in a transparent social realm."

"The crisis of modernity is the crisis of purification itself."

"The modern world is populated by hybrids we refuse to acknowledge."

"Modern thought rests on a hidden theology of nature and society."

"Modernity is a crisis because it denies the existence of its own hybrids."

"The social is neither more nor less real than the technical."

"We live in a pluriverse, not a universe."

"The modern world rests on the systematic denial of hybridity."

"The social world is an achievement that must be continuously performed."

"The tyranny of the present moment leaves no room for memory or anticipation."

"The modern individual is caught between the desire for autonomy and the compulsion to accelerate."

"The self is not a fixed entity to be optimized but a relationship to be cultivated."

"Modernity's great achievement is having made us homeless in time."

"The crisis of meaning in modernity is fundamentally a crisis of temporal structure."

"The self that is always accelerating is never truly present to itself."

"The modern condition is characterized by the inability to be satisfied with anything."

"The modern world runs on borrowed time, and the debt is mounting."

"The self is not a problem to be solved but a process to be inhabited."

"Gender is not something one is, but something one does—a repeated stylization of the body, a set of repeated acts within a highly rigid regulatory frame that congeal over time to produce the appearance of substance, of a natural sort of being."

"There is no gender identity behind the expressions of gender; that identity is performatively constituted by the very expressions that are said to be its results."

"Performativity is not a singular act used by a subject, but a reiterative and citational practice by which subjects are formed."

"We are all implicated in systems of power and violence; there is no position of innocence from which to speak."